https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:16:41 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-26840 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()</p> <p>The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:</p> <p>================================================================== unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192): comm &#34;cachefilesd2&#34;, pid 680, jiffies 4294881224 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc ea38a44b): [&lt;ffffffff8eb8a1a5&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370 [&lt;ffffffff8e917f86&gt;] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0 [&lt;ffffffffc002eeef&gt;] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120 [&lt;ffffffffc00243ec&gt;] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0 [&lt;ffffffffc0025216&gt;] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0 [&lt;ffffffff8ebc4a3b&gt;] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520 [&lt;ffffffff8ebc5069&gt;] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 [&lt;ffffffff8f6d4662&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140 [&lt;ffffffff8f8000aa&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 ==================================================================</p> <p>Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error branch to avoid memory leaks.</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()</p> <p>The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:</p> <p>================================================================== unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192): comm &#34;cachefilesd2&#34;, pid 680, jiffies 4294881224 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc ea38a44b): [&lt;ffffffff8eb8a1a5&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370 [&lt;ffffffff8e917f86&gt;] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0 [&lt;ffffffffc002eeef&gt;] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120 [&lt;ffffffffc00243ec&gt;] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0 [&lt;ffffffffc0025216&gt;] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0 [&lt;ffffffff8ebc4a3b&gt;] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520 [&lt;ffffffff8ebc5069&gt;] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 [&lt;ffffffff8f6d4662&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140 [&lt;ffffffff8f8000aa&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 ==================================================================</p> <p>Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error branch to avoid memory leaks.</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-26840